BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 25, 2024 (ENS) – At the COP29 UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, which wrapped at dawn on Sunday, governments agreed on a new collective annual climate […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023 (ENS) – “This year’s climate conference comes as the crisis enters a new phase – and shows its full force, harming billions of people, and costing trillions,” UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell declared in a video message to the world Wednesday on the eve of the UN climate summit COP28. He detailed progress and setbacks in the year since COP27 in Egypt, and set out expectations for COP28, which opened today and runs through December 12 in the gleaming, high-rise city of Dubai. […]
WOODSIDE, California, November 20, 2023 (ENS) – President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping are long-time acquaintances, and despite recent tensions, their in-person talks on November 15 at the Filoli Estate in Woodside yielded some advances for the environment. […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres aimed a message at the world’s largest polluters Wednesday when he excluded them from his Climate Ambition Summit that took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. His message – you are not taking the climate threat seriously enough. […]
GLASGOW, Scotland, November 10, 2021 (ENS) – Recognizing the “seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis” the world’s two biggest carbon emitters, the United States and China, today issued a surprise joint declaration on upgrading their climate action. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 12, 2021 (ENS) – An agreement to halt human-induced extinctions in 2022 is under consideration as countries gather online this week for the 15th meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity… […]
NEW YORK, New York, September 21, 2021 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres today welcomed important commitments made towards climate action by the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, as the High Level Debate of the UN General Assembly began in New York. […]
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